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The image is real. The caption is the problem.
The photograph is authentic and the story attached to it online is wrong, incomplete, or invented.
The suppression story attached itself to a photograph its alleged suppressor put out — six days after it was taken, in a release that pointed at the face before anybody else did.
Leroy Chiao shot it with a 180 mm telephoto in 2004. He said afterwards that he never saw the Great Wall, and wasn’t sure his picture showed it.
A dark object drifting over the South Atlantic, shared for a quarter of a century as a 13,000-year-old alien satellite. NASA’s public catalogue says what it is, in a field of its own.
